Re: XFS internal error XFS_WANT_CORRUPTED_GOTO

Amit Sahrawat
2011-07-27T04:33:08Z

This problem is with the SCSI driver for USB HDD. We checked for SATA
specific USB HDD and the problem is not happening there.
The issue lies with the non-availability of internal write cache
flushing routine in SCSI Driver.

Thanks for all the support.

Regards,
Amit Sahrawat

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 03:17:48PM +0530, Ajeet Yadav wrote:
>> Hello Dave,
>> I have seen this problem comes only with USB HDD (we have tired
>> different USB HDD, but it seems common with HDD), while USB FLASH
>> works fine.
>
> Can you make sure the USB HDD actually does flush caches reliably and
> doesn't lose data it claims it guaranteed to disk?  In addition to the
> generally bad implementation quality of USB periphals there is a large
> chance of beeing lost in translation when converting the SCSI WCE mode
> and FUA bit concepts to the ATA equivalents.
>
>

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